Frank Wolf: “I think certainly the State Department should do everything they can, quite frankly, to bring about regime change in…”

He should have the time. And when he goes there, he should not only go to Lagos and Abuja, but he should go to the Middle Belt and the northwest and travel.

Let me be clear. Nigeria clearly meets the CPC standard under USCIRF, not only based on evidence that public reported but what should be reflected in the State Department's own reporting.

The profound disagreement USCIRF with the State Department's decision not to designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern.

Our conclusion from that visit and many others, the ongoing research continues to be that the government of Nigeria is perpetrating and tolerating a systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of freedom of religion or belief.